The days of opening up your mandarin box and finding a spoiled one in the bottom are over.

We carefully inspect and package our produce to ensure that it gets to our customers looking and tasting its best.

Packaging and wrapping have become increasingly important to retailers and consumers. Our facility on Kent Avenue in Vancouver is dedicated to repacking and grading produce. Here and in Calgary, double-bagging machines allow workers to empty produce boxes onto a conveyer belt to inspect and discard any items not up to par.

As the belt moves through the machine, the product emerges from the other side bagged in mesh and ready for distribution. “The days of opening up your mandarin box and finding a spoiled one in the bottom are over,” says Jozef Hubburmin. “A lot of customers want packaged product because the quality is better.”

Repackaging also allows Fresh Direct to add labels with information about the product and to differentiate organic from conventional produce.